October 08 2014, 01:39

On July 31, I ordered a phone case on eBay.

On August 1, the journey of the case from Los Angeles to Russia began. Two months have passed, and it’s still in the States. So much for that famous mail service.

Until mid-September, it was stuck somewhere there, and in the last week, it began to actively travel across America (JAMAICA/NY, BETHPAGE/NY, ANAHEIM/CA, LOS ANGELES/CA, ANAHEIM/CA).

I wonder when it will reach Russian Post, it’ll probably take another month because of our delays. eBay does have a money-back guarantee. Maybe I should wait to finally get the case and then claim a refund as compensation?))

P.S. However, I suspect it was held up at the border, something went wrong, and it was sent back to LA (Sanctions?

October 05 2014, 14:45

A very intriguing review, with digressions into physics and poetry (“Son, look how intelligently everything is arranged in nature—the cat has holes in its fur exactly where its eyes are”, “…don’t be fooled by the big label ‘replaces a steamer’ – a multicooker without this label will resemble a multicooker with the label, just without the label”, about supercritical fluids, Celsius, Strehler, Huygens, and Hooke)

All my life I thought that inside multicookers there was a pressure sensor and, probably, scales. But, it turns out, there is only a temperature sensor installed at the bottom. Consequently, the moment when water boils away is detected by the rise in temperature above the boiling point.

http://boxoverview.d3.ru/comments/603933/

October 05 2014, 07:17

“… After all, we didn’t enter politics completely green. We had experience. I was a bartender before. It’s when you empty all the ashtrays after a party…”.

Very interesting article about Iceland’s “Best Party” led by comedian Jón Gnarr, which with the slogan “More punk, less hell” won the elections and rescued Reykjavik from crisis in four years.

Here are some more campaign promises:

* to provide free towels in all swimming pools;

• to house a polar bear in the local zoo;

• to bring Jews to the country, “so that finally, someone who understands economics might come to Iceland”;

• a drug-free parliament by 2020;

• do nothing: “We’ve worked all our lives and want to rest for four years on a good salary”;

• to build a Disneyland park with free entry for the unemployed, so they “could get photographed with Goofy”;

• more closeness to rural population: “Every Icelandic farmer will have the right to house a sheep in their guest room for free”;

• free bus rides—with a caveat: “We can promise more than any other party, because we will break every promise we make”.

“…On the day of the elections, the Best Party finally stated its sole demand for a coalition partner—to watch all five seasons of the series ‘The Wire’.”

http://style.rbc.ru/person/2014/07/15/18861/

September 28 2014, 11:19

Skating: Who would teach me how to quickly turn around on skates from moving backwards to facing the road? Well, I know how to face the road, but it’s quite a harsh way to stop. I can turn around at speed facing backwards, but then I have to significantly reduce the speed to turn back. I might need to watch some video courses before the next season)

September 26 2014, 04:48

Yesterday, the State Duma approved in the second reading the bill “On Amending Article 4 of the Federal Law ‘On Amending Certain Legislative Acts of the Russian Federation Concerning the Specification of the Procedure for Processing Personal Data in Information and Telecommunication Networks’

(concerning the specification of the effective date).”

In short, all online stores with a Russian version hosted “there” should consider creating a local version here in Russia. And we are always ready.

P.S. I wonder if there will be a third-order nesting of “On Amending…”?